Perhaps they still hang out in the places they were once revered -- hilltops, springs, caves... If you encounter an ethereal being with no face and no name, it may be one of them
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I wonder how many gods we've forgotten over the past 200,000 years. Likely most of them -- many thousands
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Wine is proof that Dionysus exists and that he loves us
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But they haven’t forgotten about us
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Religion is the ultimate winner takes all game
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Many fewer have forgotten us.
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Here's a thought: What if one of them actually exists.
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We've been watching the birth of some ersatz religions these last couple years, too.
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This is actually a solid theme for some great works of fiction.
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American Gods
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We haven’t forgotten them, we have carefully integrated them into bigger and bigger abstractions until we arrived at the idea of monotheism. They still remain in myths, legends, foundational stories, or attributes of divinity. Just like Unix syscalls. Always lurking...
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Krzystof has reason, it appear in several interesting authors: C. G. Jung, Eliade, Joseph Campbell, the old religions live in the myths...
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